“Honor Bound, a new book by so­cial psy­chol­o­gist Ryan Brown, lists US states by how con­cerned res­i­dents are about their rep­u­ta­tion and their de­sire to re­tal­i­ate against per­ceived slights. The top 10 are South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Ge­or­gia, Arkansas, Mis­sis­sippi, West Virginia, Virginia, Ten­nessee and Texas. Trump was vic­to­ri­ous in all of these ex­cept for Virginia.

Rom­ney won 8 of those states. Maybe (no) that tells us some­thing about Repub­li­cans in gen­eral, but that tells us noth­ing about how Trump is differ­ent from Rom­ney. Did Trump even do bet­ter in those states than Rom­ney did? He did much worse in Texas.